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Literary Sense of Time and Place

In five pages the images of time and place are explored in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett, 'My Antonia' by Willa Cather, '...

History and Literature

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

Public Welfare and the Roles of Women According to Adrienne Rich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and John Stuart Mill

In six pages public welfare is examined with the focus being on women's contributions in a consideration of such texts as 'Of Woma...

Villette by Charlotte Bronte and the Significance of Anti Catholic Sentiment

In five pages this paper examines why the anti Catholic sentiment that appears throughout this 1853 novel by Charlotte Bronte is i...

The life and work of Charlotte Gilman

A paper which discusses the life, work and theories of the writer Charlotte Gilman, and looks specifically at the role of feminism...

Gender Stratification According to Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In two pages this essay analyzes an individual's social role and the gender stratification theories of author Charlotte Perkins Gi...

Important Social Theorist Harriet Martineau

in this way she is like Comte and Spencer in choosing society but unlike them in her addition of feminist ideals such as the femin...

Madness and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

of this era, stereotyping the average female as prone to "hysterical" nervous disorders and the entire gender as "economically a n...

Symboliism in Bartleby, The Scrivener and The Yellow Wallpaper

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

Romantic Era Poetry and the Child

This paper considers the child as conceptually represented in the Romantic Era poetry of Charlotte Smith, William Blake, and Willi...

Literature and Social Conflict

In five pages this paper examines how social conflict is reflected in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charlotte P...

Works by Sinclair Lewis, Horatio Alger, Susanna Rowson and the American Dream

In 7 pages this paper examines the portrayal of the American Dream in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger,...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

A World Literature Philosophy Symposium

In eight pages an imaginary symposium discusses the dichotomies of the individual versus society, passion versus reason and featur...

Popular Fiction and Classical Literature

This paper analyzes what defines popular fiction and a classic literary work in an assessment of Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rosen...

Marriage in the 19th Century According to Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

'Middlemarch' and 'Villette' Acting and Performance Comparison

how the authors use the notion of acting and performance to highlight truths about the demands of society and how such a loss of i...

Successful Short Story Characteristics

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

Literary Psychological Growth and Spiritual Transformation

no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

Diverse Views of the Latter Nineteenth Century Black Woman's Experience in Slave Women of the Fields and Charlotte Forten

occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...

Social Standing as a Barrier to True Love

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

Insanity Themes in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depress...

"The Life Of An Amorous Woman" - Dirty Profession, Pure Heart

out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...

Insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

a dutiful wife, but there is clearly no connection between the two, and in this one can see one of the most powerful foundations f...

Feminist Interpretations of Two Short Stories

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

"Indissoluble Matrimony" and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

in pay and in intimate relationships, is a fundamental part of feminist thinking; it is equality in personal relationships that wi...

Analyzing Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

to see that it is just the opposite, for she needs intellectual stimulation, something other than marriage and motherhood to help ...

The life of Charlotte Corday

years roaming the hills, tending sheep but was in charge of taking care of the sisters in the convent she lived in (Orr, 2005). It...

Analysis of Five American Short Stories

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...